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Unusual Australian daybill design of Madame Butterfly.

HONDOHONDO
in Australian


The encased blank section on the top of the daybill is interesting but why? Doesn't appear  on the original artwork from Italy which the Australian daybill image was copied from. Any thoughts?


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  • DavidDavid
    edited May 2015
    Don't know what the blacked out image was so hard to say, other posters show a US Marine canoodling up to the woman, but doubt that would be it. Could be the original image showed the final scene (the boy makes up part of that scene) and possibly the Roman Catholic church objected (given it's an Italian film) and given they view suicide as a sin.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited May 2015
    The locandina you posted is trimmed.  The top 4 inches or so are missing and likely included the blank orange box shown on the daybill.

    A more interesting question is are there any other examples of daybills copying posters that were not from the US?
  • HONDOHONDO


    CSM said:
    The locandina you posted is trimmed.  The top 4 inches or so are missing and likely included the blank orange box shown on the daybill

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    Another similar but different Italian poster with no box on the top and you can see, to me at least, this poster hasn't been trimmed.

    Hondo





  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Only Italian locandinas have the box.  For some reason (likely a lot of booze) the Aussie artist decided to copy it verbatim from the locandina
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
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  • HONDOHONDO
    edited May 2015

    Thanks for that explanation Chris.

    Love to see an example of a locandina with the box. Do you have one I could see?


    Hondo

  • HONDOHONDO

    Thanks for the information Chris. Another Aussie poster artist error it seems.


    Hondo

  • HONDOHONDO
    Another one.
    CSM said:
    Only Italian locandinas have the box.  For some reason (likely a lot of booze) the Aussie artist decided to copy it verbatim from the locandina


    Interestingly another Italian locandina was copied for the release in Australia in 1960 of Tosca so obviously the blank box in both cases was intentional and so we can't blame an Aussie artist after all. Same distributor Blake Films  but it appears the printers differ. Tosca is  F. Cunninghame but I can't quite make out Madame Butterfly's printer but is doesn't appear to be F.Cunninghame so it possibly wasn't the same poster artist or printer. Also the posters were about five years apart in time.



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    Hondo



      

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Ok so we will just blame all Aussie artists and printers then!
  • HONDOHONDO

    Any other examples of Australian daybills printed with the blank section on the top?


    Hondo

  • theartofmovieposterstheartofmovieposters
    Nothing here.
  • HONDOHONDO

    Thanks for checking.


    Hondo

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